Blog
Writing about building things, lessons learned, and figuring it out along the way.
2026
6 postsFebruary
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Building a Trending Algorithm for a Feedback Platform
Why the Hacker News trending formula doesn't work for feedback platforms, and how a simple vote-velocity approach turned out to be the right answer.
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Adding Email to Bridz
The journey from getting rejected by AWS SES to building a custom Laravel notification channel for Brevo email delivery.
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A small step toward building a personal AI companion
How I went from structured databases to a simple markdown-based personal context system for Claude Code after being inspired by OpenClaw.
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When Vibe Coding Meets Multi-Tenant Architecture
What happened when we tried to vibe-code a multi-tenant SaaS product, and the deployment headaches of subdomain-based workspaces.
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2025
6 postsNovember
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Observability in Development
Why guessing at production issues doesn't work, and how observability gives you the clues to actually debug random failures.
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Blocking Characters and Unicode Validation
What I learned about Unicode character categorization and why silently removing user input is almost always a bad UX decision.